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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, The New Russia, Chapters 58-63 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Peter use to assess the plot and rid himself of the menace?
(a) Bribes.
(b) Interrogations.
(c) Threats.
(d) Tortues.

2. Peter was concerned by the loss at Narva, but he spared nothing to outfit and train his new army under whom?
(a) Brutus Sheremetev.
(b) Markus Sheremetev.
(c) Alexis Sheremetev.
(d) Boris Sheremetev.

3. Seventeenth century European wars were shown to be steadily growing in deadliness and scope, yet what rules were they still obeying?
(a) Afternoon tea sessions.
(b) Use of shields, swords, spears.
(c) Use of catapults, horses, caissons.
(d) Seasonal campaigning.

4. Peter won over the Patriarch, threatened to kill any who opposed him, and then commanded all foreign officers to do what?
(a) Surrender or face death.
(b) Rally behind him.
(c) Lay down their arms.
(d) Leave, return home.

5. In Chapter 59, Peter's efforts to raise life in Russia to Western levels and to _____________were examined.
(a) End dependence on imports.
(b) End dependence on farming.
(c) End dependence on fishing.
(d) End dependence on mining.

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury lay Charles XII up nearly dead from infection?

2. According to Chapter 50, what had Peter been oblivious to and curious about before Paris in 1717?

3. Which nations sided with Charles XII against Denmark to keep the European political status quo?

4. Which two carousing groups did Peter form that convinced many he was the Antichrist?

5. Chapter 46 examined the rapid growth of St. Petersburg following what year?

(see the answer key)

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